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World Leaders

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Country Chief of State Head of Government
Afghanistan King Mohammed Zahir Shah Prime Minister Noor Ahmed Etemadi
Albania Communist Party First Secretary Enver Hoxha  
Algeria President Houari Boumedienne
Argentina President Juan Carlos Ongania
Australia Queen Elizabeth II
Governor-General
Prime Minister John Grey Gorton
Austria    
Bangladesh    
Barbados Queen Elizabeth II
Governor-General
Prime Minister Errol W. Barrow
Belgium   Premier Paul Vanden Boeynants
(from ) Gaston Eyskens
Bhutan King Jigme Wangchuk
Bolivia President Rene Barrientos Ortuño
Botswana President Sir Seretse Khama
Brazil President Artur da Costa e Silva
Bulgaria First Secretary of the Communist Party Todor Zhikov  
Burma Ne Win  
Burundi President Michel Micombero
Cambodia Prince Norodom Sihanouk  
Cameroon President Ahmadou Ahidjo
Canada Queen Elizabeth II
Governor-General Roland Michener
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson
(from April 20) Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Central African Republic President Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Ceylon   Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake
Chad President Francois Tombalbaye
Chile President Eduardo Frei Montalva
China, Communist Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung Premier
China, Nationalist President Chiang Kai-shek Premier
Colombia President Carlos Lleras Restrepo
Congo (Brazzaville) President Alphonse Massamba-Debat
(from ) Marien Ngouabi
Congo (Kinshasa) President Joseph-Désiré Mobutu
Costa Rica President Jose Joaquin Trejos
Cuba President Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado Premier Fidel Castro
Cyprus President Archbishop Makarios II Prime Minister Spyros A. Kyprianou
Czechoslovakia Communist Party Secretary Antonin Novotny
(from January 5) Alexander Dubcek
Premier Oldrich Cernik
Dahomey President Emile D.Zinsou
Denmark King Frederik IX Premier Jens Otto Krag
(from ) Hilmar Baunsgaard
Dominican Republic President Joaquin Balaguer
Ecuador President
(from September ) José Maria Velasco Ibarra
El Salvador President Fidel Sanchez Hernandez
Equatorial Guinea President Francisco Macias Nguema
Ethiopia Emperor Haile Selassie I
Fiji    
Finland President Urho Kekkonen Premier Rafael Paasio
(from ) Maune Koivisto
France President Charles de Gaulle Premier Georges Pompidou
(from July 10) Maurice Couve de Murville
Gabon President Albert B. Bongo
Gambia   Prime Minister D. K. Jawara
Germany, East First Secretary of the Communist Party Walter Ulbricht Prime Minister Willi Stoph
Germany, West President Heinrich Lübke Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger
Ghana   Chairman Koseph A. Ankrah
Greece King Constantine II Premier George Papadopoulos
Guatemala President Julio Mendez Montenegro
Guinea President Sékou Touré
Guyana   Prime Minister Forbes Burnham
Haiti President François Duvalier
Honduras President Osvaldo Lopez Arellano
Hungary First Secretary of the Communist Party Janos Kadar  
Iceland President Asgeir Asgeirsson
(from ) Kristjan Eldjarn
Premier Bjarni Benediktsson
India President Zakir Husain Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
Indonesia President Suharto
Iran Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Premier Amir Abbas Hoveida
Iraq President Abdul Rahman Arif
(from July 17) Brigadier General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Ireland President Eamon de Valera Prime Minister John M. Lynch
Israel President Schneor Zalman Shazar Prime Minister Levi Eshkol
Italy President Giuseppe Saragat Premier Aldo Moro
(from ) Giovanni Leone
(from December ) Mariano Rumor
Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny
Jamaica   Prime Minister Hugh Shearer
Japan Emperor Hirohito Prime Minister Eisaku Sato
Jordan King Hussein II Premier Bahjat al-Talhouni
Kenya President Jomo Kenyatta
Korea, North Premier Kim Il Sung
Korea, South President Chung Hee Park Prime Minister Chung Il Kwon
Kuwait Sheikh Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah
Laos King Savang Vatthana Premier Souvanna Phouma
Lebanon President Charlers Helou Prime Minister Rashid Karami
Lesotho King Moshsoeshoe II
Liberia President William V. S. Tubman
Libya King Mohammed Idris Et Senussi Premier Wanis al-Geddafi
Liechtenstein  
Luxembourg Grand Duke Jean Prime Minister Pierre Werner
Malagasy Republic President Philibert Tsiranana
Malawi President H. Kamuzu Banda
Malaysia   Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman
Maldives Sultan Mohammed Farid Didi Prime Minister Ibrahim Nasir
Mali President Modibo Keita
(from November ) Yoro Diakite
Malta   Prime Minister Giorgio B. Olivier
Mauritania President Moktar Ould Daddah
Mauritius   Prime Minister Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
Mexico President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
Monaco  
Mongolia Zhamsarangin Sambu Premier Yumzhagin Tsedenbal
Morocco King Hassan II
Muscat and Oman Sultan Said Ibn Taimur
Nauru  
Nepal King Mahendra Bir Birkram Shah Deva Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa
Netherlands Queen Juliana Prime Minister Piet de Jong
New Zealand   Prime Minister Keith J. Holyoake
Nicaragua President Anastasio Somoza Debayle
Niger President Hamani Diori
Nigeria Yakubu Gowon
Norway King Olav V Prime Minister Per Borten
Oman  
Pakistan President Mohammad Ayub Khan
Panama President Marco A. Robles
(from October 1) Arnulfo Arias
(from October 11) Jose M. Pinilla
Paraguay President Alfredo Stroessner
Peru President Fernando Belaúnde Terry
(from October 3) Juan Velasco Alvarado
Philippines President Ferdinand E. Marcos
Poland Communist Party Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka Premier
Portugal President Americo Tomaz Premier António de Oliviera Salazar
(from September 26) Marcelo Caetano
Qatar    
Rhodesia   Prime Minister Ian Smith
Romania Communist Party Secretary Nicolae Ceausescu Premier Ion
Rwanda President Gregorie Kayibanda
Saudi Arabia King Faisal
Senegal President Leopod Senghor
Sierra Leone   Prime Minister Andrew Juxon-Smith
(from April ) Siaka Stevens
Singapore President Yusof Bin Ishak Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew
Somalia President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke
South Africa President J. J. Fouche Prime Minister B. J. Vorster
Spain Francisco Franco
Sri Lanka    
Sudan   Prime MInister Ahmed Mahgoub
Swaziland King Sobhuza II Prime Minister Makhosini Dlamini
Sweden King Gustaf VI Premier Tage Erlander
Switzerland President Willy Spühler
Syria President Nureddin al-Atassi Premier Yussef Zayen
(from October ) Nureddin al-Atassi
Tanzania President Julius K. Nyerere
Thailand King Bhumibol Adulyadej Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn
Togo President Étienne Eyadéma
Tonga    
Trinidad and Tobago   Prime Minister Eric Williams
Tunisia President Habib Bourguiba
Turkey President Cevdet Sunay Premier Suleyman Demirel
Uganda President Milton Obote
United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser
United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II Prime Minister Harold Wilson
United States President Lyndon B. Johnson
U.S.S.R. Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev Premier Aleksei Kosygin
Upper Volta Sangoule Lamizana
Uruguay President Jorge Pacheco Areco
Venezuela President Rafael Caldera
Vietnam, North President Ho Chi Minh Premier Pham Van Dong
Vietnam, South President Nguyen Van Thieu
Yemen Abdul Rahman al-Iryani Premier Hassan al-Amri
Yemen, Southern President Qahtan al-Shaabi
Yugoslavia President Josip Broz Tito
Zambia President Kenneth K. Kaunda

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